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March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors in the state of Pennsylvania's new 529 college savings plan will have two socially conscious investment alternatives to choose from in the...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A federal judge upbraided the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for not trying harder to settle the racial discrimination claims of a...

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Last week the Senate Finance Committee approved the Affordable Education Act of 2001 that would, among other things, make permanent the tax-free treatment...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Recently issued tax clarification about health care reimbursement arrangements (HRA) is likely to prompt more employers to adopt an HRA as a low-cost...

July 3, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Conforming to a recent US Supreme Court case, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said it wouldn't process discrimination claims from undocumented...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The beleaguered steel industry suffered another casualty Wednesday when National Steel Corp. filed for protection from a federal bankruptcy court - the largest...

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Deutsche Bank has agreed to buy RoPro U.S. Holding Inc., a holding company for the real estate investment manager RREEF.

March 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Retirement plan trading restrictions on company stock may not be as extensive as some might have feared, a new study indicates.

March 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The number of companies sponsoring an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, has declined significantly over the past decade, but the average amount...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Companies with 200 to 999 workers have been hit the hardest with health-care cost hikes - in part because executives opted for a...

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - During the second day of House hearings on the Enron debacle, Congressmen expressed interest in a professor's call for greater employee involvement in...

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Over the weekend President Bush rolled back several government policies favored by organized labor, restoring those put in place by his father.

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - A database which claims to be the first to provide the securities financing industry with a comprehensive and independent source of fair-value lending...

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Manulife Financial has launched the i:evaluator, a new investment evaluation tool for financial advisors.

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Plan sponsors tired of getting "scraped" by provider fees could find some welcome disclosure - and relief - with a new daily valuation...

February 19, 2001 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Six union pension funds will be re-paid $18 million from loans they made to a former Arizona governor who orchestrated a failed real...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Stock mutual funds fared miserably in the last few months, as accounting shenanigans, bankruptcies and bleak profit forecasts dragged shares lower and raised...

July 2, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Principal Capital Real Estate Investors has named Frank Schmitz as president of its real estate equity group.

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Slumping fund returns left pension plans reporting a negative return for 2001, a survey of plan sponsor performance finds.

February 7, 2002 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Progress Investment Management Company introduced a new private equity product, Discovery Fund II, designed for pension funds, endowments and foundations.